Making a wedding toast
Advice, info and sample material to help you end your wedding speech with the perfect toast
Whatever role you're playing in the proceedings, if you're making a speech the chances are you're making a toast too. Toasts give you a chance to say something genuinely touching, and they're a great way of signalling to everyone you're finished.
Here you'll find a collection of material that you can easily adapt, to round off your speech perfectly. And, to make sure you don't make a wedding gaff, there's a guide on who says what and when.
General Wedding Speech Guide
- About the bride
- Who speaks and when
- Lines that are sentimental
- Who says what
- Great lines about the groom
- 20 top tips for making a great speech
- Coping with nerves
- End on a high!
- Tips, hints and checklists for a perfect wedding speech
- After you’ve written the speech
- Handling props and equipment
- Making a strong start
- Giving your speech a meaty middle
- Choosing the right material
- Researching your speech
- Getting your delivery right
- Speech games
- Great lines for your best man’s speech
- Wedding speech No-Nos
- Great lines about the bride
- Lines to get a laugh
- Lines to kick off with
- Ten tips for a top performance
- How to make people laugh with a wedding speech
- How to work jokes into your wedding speech
- Lines that work – and lines that don’t…
- Other speakers
- The bride’s speech: Where to start
- Sample material: For the stand-in speaker
- Stand-in speaker: Where to start
- Who traditionally says what





